Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West (Tate Cassandra)(Pevná vazba)

A highly readable, myth-busting, fact-based story. [A] tale for all who love the West, its history and its truths.
--The Inlander Historian and journalist Cassandra Tate takes a fresh look at the personalities, dynamics, disputes, social pressures, and shifting legacy of the Whitman Massacre--a pivotal event in the history of the American West--including the often-missing Indian point of view. In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attack led to a war of retaliation against the Cayuse; the extension of federal control over the present-day states of Washington, Oregon,
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